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Yeruham Blindman

… many arrangements for liturgical music using melodies from Jewish folk songs. … Cantor & composer … Cantorate … …

Nissan Blumenthal

… his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from the composers, Handel, Haydn, Cherubini, and Mendelssohn …

… of piano performance. He received a degree in composition from the Liceo Musicale of Bologna in 1918, studying under … through the arts, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music was banned from the radio and all of his concerts were canceled. He left …

Mikhail Gnesin

… the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Unlike other musicians from the Society, Gnesin decided to return to Russia to take … was founded by his sisters Yelena, Yevgeniya and Mariya. From 1935 to 1944, he also taught at the Leningrad … appeared in my works.” Some of the most distinguished work from his “Jewish” period includes: the operas, The Youth of …

Mordekhai Hershman

… (for free) on behalf of the 'Chernikhover Relief Fund'. From an early age Hershman was a child singer in several … to Zaludkowski (who probably received information directly from Hershman), Hershman sang as meshorer with Zeidel Rovner … Berdychiv (Yiddish: Barditshev) and when his voice changed from alto to tenor he joined the choir of Nissi Belzer …

Pinhas Jassinowsky

… Pinhas Jassinowsky was born in Romanovka, a small town outside of Kiev , Ukraine . …

Alter Yehiel Karniol

… Great Synagogue in Odessa in 1889. With the onslaught of pogroms in 1905, Karniol left Odessa for New York , where he …

Asher Shimon Mizrahi

… outside the old city walls and built a new home across from the Sephardic Synagogue in the newly established … staple meal for Shabbat) to be cooked in the Mizrahi oven. From an early age, people in the community took notice of … and admirer of Asher Mizrahi, helped him to escape from Eretz Israel on a cargo boat exporting oranges to Malta …

David Abikzer

… his musical education. His vocal talent was evident from a young age, and as a child he received encouragement from his mother to continue to sing. At age 17 he moved to … While living in the United States, he also graduated from the US School of Music. Abikzer's unique position at …

Eliezer S. Abinun

… in harmony with its neighbors. The Abinun family held a prominent place within that community, as attested by a memorial book suspended from the ceiling of its former main Sephardi synagogue, now a … authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. While a young man, he …